INFOhio Database Scavenger Hunt

 

 

Access Science

 

What 2 sources can you search?

 

 

What other way can the database be searched?

 

 

Complete a search for ‘seawater’.  How many entries does your search find?

 

 

Complete a search for ‘fish’.  How many entries does your search find?

 

 

Complete a search for ‘seawater and fish’.  How many entries does your search find?

 

 

Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Complete a search for ‘seawater or fish’.  How many entries does your search find?

 

 

Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Complete a search for ‘seawater not fish’.  How many entries does your search find?

 

 

 

Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American National Biography

 

Click ‘help’.  Click ‘Finding Articles’. 

 

For a precise match, in what format should you enter a name?

 

 

Are the biographies of living or dead Americans?

 

 

Search for Lincoln, Abraham in the search by name box.  When did Abraham Lincoln die?

 

 

Amico

 

Choose creator and search for artwork by da Vinci.

 

Who owns the piece Studies for the Nativity?

 

 

Annals of American History

 

Use the timeline to find an entry about an event that occurred during the year of your birth.  What is the article about?

 

 

 

 

Find an entry written by Christopher Columbus.  What is the title and in what year was it written?

Britannica Online School Edition

 

Find an entry on a topic of your choice.  Complete a bibliography card for it.  Refer to your Bibliography Card – MLA Style handout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ebsco Host

 

Click the ‘Secondary Search Grades 7-12’ button.  Check MASUltra – School Edition.

 

Find an article on a topic of your choice.  Complete a bibliography card for it.  First, determine if you have an online magazine article or an online newspaper article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature Online

 

Click on ‘African American Poetry’ 

Search for “The poet and his song”

Click on ‘Table of Contents’ and click on “The poet and his song”

 

Who wrote the poem?

 

 

 

What is the first line of the poem?

 

 


Newsbank

 

Click on Cincinnati Enquirer, The (OH)

Search for ‘ross high school’

Click on the article “Region’s voters to decide 19 issues”

Complete a bibliography card for this newspaper article. 

Hint:  Use the example for an article in a newspaper, plus add the last 2 lines from the example of an article in an online magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Reference

 

Complete a quick search for Charles Dickens

 

How did Charles Dickens begin his writing career?

 

 

Sirs Discoverer

 

Find the magazine article on genetics that appeared in the 1993 copy of Current Health 2

 

Write a bibliography card for it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Think and Review

 

Which databases do you think would best help you in your classes?

List the databases after the classes offered at Ross High School.

There will probably be more than one correct answer for each class.

 

Access Science

American National Biography

Amico

Annals of American History

Britannica Online School Edition

Ebsco Host

Literature Online

Newsbank

Oxford Reference

SIRS Discoverer

 

English

 

 

 

Math

 

 

 

Science

 

 

 

Social Studies

 

 

 

Art

 

 

 

Business